For this week’s episode, we go to War on Christmas! The worst fears of the Christian right are realized as asshole atheists crap all over their holiday!

Actually, that’s not what happens at all. Instead, we talk about the bullshit war on Christmas and why a lot of atheists (including us) really like the holiday. We also talk about some of the things we don’t like about the holiday season. Christmas is just a few days away! We hope you enjoy the holiday in whatever way is appropriate for you!

On this week’s episode, we explore the Not All Like That Christians Project. Endorsed by Dan Savage in this video, the project was started to give Christians the opportunity to come out of the closet and publicly state their support for LGBT rights. Our friend Eric Knight joins us for a conversation that includes the tricky question: why is the NALT project a good thing and #notallmen a bad thing? Eric also asks us five questions and we spend a lot of time talking about vegetables.

Left Behind has become something of a running gag on our podcast. Having watched Kirk Cameron’s version of this popular Christian fable and suffered through the atrocious board game, we turned our gaze towards the newest iteration starring Oscar winner Nicholas Cage. In spite of a considerably higher budget, the film managed to achieve what we thought would be impossible. It was worse that the first one and possibly worse than the board game. We watched it so you didn’t have to. Listen to our pain!

Welcome back for a new geeky boner episode! It has been a while since we’ve explored our latest geeky obsessions so this week we get to spend a lot of quality time with some new fall TV series and some new Star Wars stuff. Not just the new trailer for Episode VII either. We also get a few hints about an upcoming expansion for the role playing game as well! As always, we finish off with five answers from a listener.

This week we look at the way religious terminology is pervasive in our language and how we deal with that as atheists. Phrases like “bless you” are considered polite and yet they assume something about the belief of the person saying and receiving the statement. We also find ourselves looking at saying “Merry Christmas” vs. “Happy Holidays.” As a non believer, do we try to edit these words and phrases from our vocabulary or do we just ignore it?

We were still at Omegacon when we sat down to take a look at the slate of super-hero movies that have been announced recently. Obviously the Marvel and DC films take the front seat but we don’t forget about Fox and Sony. It is way too early to know how good any of these movies will be but that doesn’t stop us from passing judgement anyway. We also spend a few minutes talking about the Marvel movie that isn’t a Marvel movie -Big Hero Six.

This weeks episode was recorded at Omegacon in Siren, Wisconsin. We are joined by tabletop gaming enthusiast Matt Everhart. The four of us talked about the games we played over the weekend, new and old. We all had a great time over the weekend and played a lot of awesome games. Including Legendary. If you didn’t know it by know, we really like Legendary. Tabletop enthusiasts should get some good ideas this week! Matt also finally gets a crack at our five questions!

Tim’s wife Pat rejoins us this week to talk about Geek morality. We look at popular geek culture and talk about the moral lessons we find there and how those moral lessons compare to those we find in other texts like – say – the bible! We explore the grey areas that can be found in many of our favorite genre fiction including Star Trek, Star Wars and Dr. Who. Then Pat asks us five questions!

This week, we talk about one of the more overlooked sci-fi films of 2014, Edge of Tomorrow or, as it has been re-named for home release, Live Die Repeat. As is the case with most of our in-depth movie conversations, you can bet there will be a lot of spoilers. In fact, we discuss the ending of the film about five minutes into the podcast. It probably isn’t the best geek film of the year but it was a very pleasant surprise and we all enjoyed it. We also read five answers from Boulder!

This week we take a look at the fallout in the Atheism movement following some poorly chosen comments by “leaders” in the movement like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. The strength of the atheist movement is our combined distaste for organized leadership. It is also a weakness. We examine that dichotomy and try to figure out if there is a way to balance them. Of course, we also get to read five answers from one of our listeners! This week, our answers come all the way from Scotland!